Category: nature
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Capturing Winter’s Beauty: A Journaling Journey
For the month of January, I am taking part in the challenge from Wild Wonder Foundation to nature journal each day. I will do my best to meet that challenge but also plan to give myself grace on the days I can’t fit it in. The above poem was written in response to the prompt…
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Nature’s Healing: Finding Light Through Darkness
Oh Mother Nature, I come to you today seeking your healing for my bleak soul adorned in mourning blackness. I want to sit amongst this community of sky touching spruce trees while the goldeness of our sun plays hide-n-seek with outstretched branches and tall, thin trunks. I ask you to help restore my soul, my…
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Nature’s Lesson: Revealing Our Authentic Selves
Pure beauty of self revealed- conforming masquerade ceases. Revealed jittery candid spirit- revealed beauty of pure self The past 2 weeks have been filled with the glorious colors of the season- rubies, tangerines, golds, russets. Many times I have stopped in awe of the scene before me. The sun highlighting these colors to the fullest.…
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Finding Magic in Morning Mist
Earth’s misty gray heavens silently descend to kiss the crown of Fall tipped leaves embracing them in momentary privacy, magnifying the morning hush allowing the world to rest for a few hours longer in the delayed brightness of day. Over the past few weeks, I have encountered more foggy mornings than I would say is…
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Last Row of the Season: A Poetic Journey
The season of rowing is ending- One last session on the canal Eight rowers in unison Gliding over water Sunshine to twilight Blush, violet, peach, grace the sky BEAUTY stuns It was the last row of the season. It is getting darker earlier and the Erie Canal will soon be drained. I had mixed emotions…
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Joyful Learning After Tech Glitches and Nature’s Reset
Tech glitches FRUSTRATION Change math plans Walk outside Sun, sky, warmth Relieves angst Back to class learning starts joyfully. This is the tale of my day at school so far. I was in a kindergarten class co-teaching a math lesson. The students were going to be using their ipads for the first time. They were…
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Misty Mornings & Sunny Afternoons
Traffic lights offer an Impressionistic glow, Streets are darkened in dampness, Waterdrops plummet off of heavy leaves, My view is shortened-swaddled in a soft, misty grayness, A subtle, quiet calmness fills this morning ride. Warm air blesses my forehead and cheeks, Sunshine makes my eyes crinkle and squint, Vivid green leaves kiss a bright azure…
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Harvesting Summer’s Bounty
Gathering in summer’s bounty one last weekend harvesting… the blue sky, sunshiny beach day, warm grains of sand forming to the shape of my foot, rhythmic wash of waves dispersing over the shore, relaxed mind reading while reclined in my beach chair, a quiet ohhh with my first steps into the cool water, wading farther…
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Embracing Our Star-Human Nature: A Reflection on the Cosmic Connection
I was reading the book Rooted:Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt when these words just hit me and made me pause. ” It is totally 100 percent true: nearly all elements in the human body were made in a star and many have come through several supernovas”- (Dr.…
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Day Bookended with Serenity: Morning Mingling, Sunset Serenity
Day ushered in with serenity- tranquil waters parted by twin kayaks rowing side by side in friendship, catching-up stories of ups, downs carried away on ripples- giving peace. Stress released stroke by stroke sinking into dark wavy waters- spouses paddling in sync floating, absorbing beauty of declining sun’s colored sky Day culminates with serenity. I…
Doodads and Doodles 